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No True Glory

By: Bing West
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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 Fallujah: Iraq's most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For 20 months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory came at a terrible price: 151 Americans and thousands of Iraqis were left dead.

The epic battle for Fallujah revealed the startling connections between policy and combat that are a part of the new reality of war.

The Marines had planned to slip into Fallujah "as soft as fog". But after four American contractors were brutally murdered, President Bush ordered an attack on the city, against the advice of the Marines. The assault sparked a political firestorm, and the Marines were forced to withdraw amid controversy and confusion, only to be ordered a second time to take a city that had become an inferno of hate and the lair of the archterrorist al-Zarqawi.

Based on months spent with the battalions in Fallujah and hundreds of interviews at every level (senior policymakers, negotiators, generals, and soldiers and Marines on the front lines) No True Glory is a testament to the bravery of the American soldier and a cautionary tale about the complex, and often costly, interconnected roles of policy, politics, and battle in the twenty-first century.

©2005 Bing West (P)2005 Books on Tape 20th Century Middle East Military Modern War Iran Solider
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Well told and read. a comprehensive view of Iraq in the post invasion period.
how decisions made by politicians and diplomats ignore those that know better.
the facts are enlivened with accounts of conflicts about real soldiers and mot just pieces on a board.
a great story.

A story that needed telling.

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Brilliantly written with a solid informative historical narrative, mixed in with personal and moving stories of the people on the ground. The audio book is well performed. However the book is very much from the perspective of United States military, so it feels like there is still more to the story. Even due to that flaw, it’s a fantastic book and I would still recommend it

Engaging and Deeply informative

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first 3 hrs. is about who's who. there after stroy line begins.. narrator was a news reader.

feels like a history lesson

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